I usually enjoy movies where scientists with guns find some lost world where dinosaurs exist.I have seen a ton of them and they are usually good.This is the exact opposite.The most exciting thing about this movie is that Hugh Beaumont is in it, another old sitcom star that I have never seen in a movie.But his barely noticeable appearance is not enough to save this movie.It's literally so boring that I bet most people won't be able to make it to when they get to the "Lost Continent".There's so much non-sense,unintelligible babble and straight out lying that it's not easy to understand what's going on.Don't waste your time with this.Go watch it done right in The Land Unknown.

I am surprised this has a rating as high as 3.0, as I have found this as one of the most boring movies of the entire 1950's. This was a time where every bad movie had a giant monster or something and this technically no exception. We get to see dinosaurs! Except that the dinosaurs are horribly animated in stop motion. The herbivores try to eat humans for no reason. Well, maybe they were just trying to maul them? I mean, hippos are really aggressive. It doesn't make sense either way.The movie features a group of guys who find, well, a lost continent. They meet some people there, and climb up a mountain for what seems like half of the movie. That's the main flaw with this reason is that it's so TEDIOUS. I had no idea that rock climbing could be so boring. Even when the finally get to the land of the dinosaurs or whatever, very little happens. In the end, the entire journey is mostly pointless. Whereas most monster movies at least has stuff going on, this is just too boring to care about. *

Lippert Pictures Lost Continent is an interesting and better product than normally you might get out of this low budget studio. Basically it's a version of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World updated with the plot to include the Cold War. It also is a film that glorifies our brand new United States Air Force only a few years old at the time.Scientists John Hoyt, Whit Bissell, and Hugh Beaumont are testing a new rocket, modifying those V-2s that the Nazis introduced before World War II ended. The thing goes completely haywire and disappears somewhere in the South Pacific.This part of the plot completely lost me. After all the fighting in the Pacific over various islands and decisions which ones to fight for and which ones to bypass, you'd think there would be no lost islands by 1951. But apparently we and the Japanese missed this one and it's a beaut. It's got more uranium per square yard than any place on earth and a big mountain with a prehistoric plateau on which a lot of prehistoric flora and fauna still exist. And a few large dinosaurs as well. Cesar Romero, Chick Chandler, and Sid Melton are Air Force men who take our scientists to look for the rocket and get the data from it. All six have the usual encounters with prehistoric life that one associates with films like these. It looks a whole lot like the Jurassic Park that Richard Attenborough created. The prehistoric sequences are photographed in a sepia toned green, the rest of the film is standard black and white.When I was a kid I saw this on television in the Fifties and I still remember Sid Melton getting gored by a triceratops. Lost Continent was an exciting film back then and kids who are the age I was back then might still like this film. It's better than a lot of Lippert products, but still very hokey.

"Lost Continent" (1951) is a film that I used to love as a kid, but hadn't seen in over 40 years. I still remembered parts of it vividly, however, especially the gripping image of a man falling to his doom through a covering of cloud, and wondered if it would hold up all these years later. The answer: well, partly. In this one, the prototype of an atomic rocket crashlands on a mountain plateau in the South Pacific, and Air Force pilot Cesar Romero is called on to ferry scientists Whit Bissell, John Hoyt and Hugh Beaumont (six years pre-"Beaver") to the site, along with a few others. After a protracted but nonetheless suspenseful climb up the steep mountainside, which the band accomplishes with only ropes (and no pitons or carabiners!)--a climb that takes up more than 1/3 of the picture--our heroes make it to the top and discover a suddenly green-tinted world, populated with prehistoric critters. Although the switch from B&W to that greenish hue IS pretty nifty, it must be said that these dinosaurs are brought to life by the filmmakers using what might be the lamest stop-motion photography ever committed to film; 1925's "The Lost World" did a better job at this! Still, cheaply put together as it is, "Lost Continent" is mighty fun to watch, mainly because the leads are so appealing and convincing. The presences of yummy '50s gals Hillary Brooke and Acquanetta in bit roles doesn't hurt, either. Although the dinosaurs-on-an-island bit had been better handled three years earlier in "Unknown Island," and the notion of going after a crashlanded rocket over dangerous terrain would be dealt with infinitely better in 1968's "Ice Station Zebra" (and even in the 1963 Bob Hope comedy "Call Me Bwana"), this film still has a pulpy appeal that manages to strike a chord in me 40 years later. Watch it with the kiddies one night. Oh...nice-looking print on the DVD that I just watched, too!